The School Workforce Census is a statutory collection of individual level data on teachers and support staff from local authorities, local authority-maintained schools and academies.

Data collected in the School Workforce Census will replace and improve upon that formerly collected from local authorities in Form 618g.

The Census works by allowing schools and local authorities to extract data already held in their management information and HR/payroll systems, and sharing that data with the Department via its secure web-based collection tool, COLLECT.